In the end, the casualties included Elling and his colleague Arnab Ghatak, a medical doctor—both fired by McKinsey after internal records showed they had discussed purging records to hide the firm’s involvement. The consultancy, which for decades had mostly kept its name out of the news, suddenly found it on the front pages of America’s newspapers, leaving an ugly and lasting reputational scar. To settle government investigations into its role in helping Purdue “turbocharge” opioid sales when thousands of people were dying of overdoses, the firm agreed to pay more than $600 million even as it
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